severity 456299 wishlist
thanks

Requests for new features should generally be wishlist.

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 01:45:34PM +0100, Erik Braun wrote:

> When an "option nis-domain" ist set via a DHCP server, there is no need for
> the file /etc/defaultdomain (in addition, dpkg -S does not know this file).

dhcp3-client looks like it supports exporting this information via the
hooks directory.  However, it may be some time before I have a suitable
test environment to do any development on.

> So, if the command "domainname" succeeds AND the file /etc/defaultdomain
> doesn't exist, the nis-domain should be the output of "domainname".

I assume you mean to say that you want to set the NIS domain from the
DHCP option here?

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